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Picher, Oklahoma - Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma (Hardcover)
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Picher, Oklahoma - Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
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On May 10, 2008, a tornado struck the northeastern Oklahoma town of
Picher, destroying more than one hundred homes and killing six
people. It was the final blow to a onetime boomtown already
staggering under the weight of its history. The lead and zinc
mining that had given birth to the town had also proven its
undoing, earning Picher in 2006 the distinction of being the
nation's most toxic Superfund site. Recounting the town's
dissolution and documenting its remaining traces, Picher, Oklahoma
tells the story of an unfolding ghost town. With shades of Picher's
past lives lingering at every intersection, memories of its proud
history and sad decline inhere in the relics, artifacts, personal
treasures, and broken structures abandoned in disaster's wake. In
Todd Stewart's haunting photographs, faded snapshots and letters,
well-worn garments, and books and toys give harrowing and elegiac
testimony of constancy and dislocation. Empty buildings and bared
foundations stand in silent witness to the homes, schools,
churches, and businesses that once defined life in Picher. As these
photographs and Alison Fields's accompanying essays explore the
otherworldly town teetering over massive sinkholes, they reveal how
memory, embedded in everyday objects, can be dislocated and
reframed through both chronic and acute instances of environmental
trauma. Though hardly known outside the Three Corners Region of
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, the fate of Picher echoes well
beyond its borders. Picher, Oklahoma reflects the broader
intersections of memory, time, material objects, and changing
environments, demanding our attention even as it resists easy
interpretation.
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